Babafemi Ogundipe

Babafemi Ogundipe

Infobox_President|name=Brigadier Babafemi Ogundipe
nationality=Nigerian


imagesize = 170px
order=1st Vice President of Nigeria
term_start=January 16, 1965
term_end=July 29, 1966
predecessor=None
successor=J.E.A. Wey
spouse=
party="None (military)"
president=Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi
religion=

Babafemi Ogundipe was the "de facto" Vice President of Nigeria during Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi's 1966 military government. He was born on September 6 1924 to Yoruba parents from Ago-Iwoye, in present-day Ogun State in western Nigeria. He joined the Royal West African Frontier Force in 1941, serving in Burma between 1942 and 1945. He re-enlisted after the second World War, and rose to the rank of Brigadier in May 1964. He served as the Chief of Staff, Supreme Headquarters Nigerian Defence Forces between January 1966 and August 1966. After the coup which overthrew Aguiyi-Ironsi, and following an agreement with the new military government led by Yakubu Gowon, he left the country for the United Kingdom, where he attended the 1966 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting as Nigeria's representative in September. Thereafter he took up appointment as Nigeria's High Commissioner in the United Kingdom, a post he held until August 1970, when he left public service. He died in London in November 1971.

ee also

*Nigerian First Republic
*Nigerian Civil War

References

*cite web |url= http://www.kwenu.com/publications/siollun/1966_coup1.htm|title= The inside story of Nigeria's first military coup |last=Siollun|first=Max|accessdate=2007-05-22|date=2005-10-30 |work=Kwenu|publisher=Reedbuck, Inc


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